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Health Secretary Ona wants curbs on stem-cell therapy

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Health Secretary Enrique Ona

It is the secret to the vitality of some of the country’s famous senior citizens, among them 88-year-old Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile and 75-year-old former President Joseph Estrada.

Stem-cell therapy, the expensive regenerative treatment popularly used around the world to cheat aging and treat serious diseases, has become the latest cosmetic fad.

But doctors say dubious clinics offering quick treatment could be risky.

Health Secretary Enrique Ona has formed a special task force to draft guidelines that would regulate facilities offering stem-cell therapy, noting how several clinics have remained unregulated.

“We are already constituting the task force and the guidelines [will be out] very soon. We have to come up with this because we already hear a lot of advertisements,” Ona told reporters on Friday.


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Tags: Health Secretary Enrique Ona , Medical Science , Science & Health , Stem Cell Therapy

  • http://www.facebook.com/blazinf Boy Abnoy

    sana ganyan yun ginawa doktor para kay dolphy eh pero huli na lahat

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/W2CPCJ4B6NLT4IVVV3BTXG2W5E Wilduck

    enteng! padalos dalos ka kasi ng statement mo , eh ngayon ano masasabi mo sa comment ni johnny at ni john? pinuntahan mo na ba yon medical city sa pasig??? verify mo??? and then write a correction on your claim…

  • Johnby

    To Enteng – Unknown to most Filipinos, the Philippines now has one of the few genuine best Stem Cell Therapy centers in the world. The Medical City in Pasig has invested millions of dollars in laboratory and high tech equipment for stem cell therapies.

    It’s Regenerative Disease Department is pure state of the art and headed by Dr. Samuel Bernal, Senior Professor Emeritus at UCLA Medical School who headed the school’s Cancer Research Department. He also taught at Harvard, authored various books in cancer and one of the world’s most respected leading authorities on Stem Cell science.

    Many Filipinos are not yet aware that they have much to be proud about and still go to the U.S. and Europe for Stem Cell treatments spending as much as four times more than they would for such treatments which are often less advanced than can be found in Medical City. Whereas Americans, Europeans, Asians and other foreigners are now continuously going to Medical City
    for Stem Cell treatments.

    Medical City does not even advertise as they do not need to. They have enough patients worldwide. The program is so successful, that Medical City is now in the process of completing a multi-million hospital in Guam and have bought provincial hospitals in the Philippines which are being renovated for modernization.

    I know of what I speak as I am from the U.S. and my wife had Stem Cell therapy at Medical City for her type of cancer which is usually fatal but which completely went into remission after her treatments at Medical City. We did some research and the Medical City Stem Cell program is absolutely State of the Art. We will always be grateful to the very professional Stem Cell Medical City l team who are composed of doctors and scientists who graduated and trained in the best schools in the world.

    I suggest you check out and visit Medical City’s Regerative Disease Department and see how impressive it is. It is even more modern than some of the best in the U.S.

    I commend you on your legitimate concern about quack clinics, dermatologists and even cosmetologists claiming they are offering Stem Cell treatments. Its impossible for them to offer this. The professionals at Medical City share your concern. Stem Cell therapy is a very complex process requiring professionals with extensive training and very sophisticated expensive equipment and much intricate laboratory work. You are right about the DOH protecting the public from snake oil operators.

    I hope this information helps many as it has helped us.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G7ROPG2J6GSEKG6KUYD3D5K6AE enteng

    No clinic in the PH has yet the capability to perform stem cell therapy. This work is found only in Europe. Watch out for quack clinics offering such therapy. The DOH must suppress this activity to prevent accident in the future. Prospective patients interested in this therapy must research or else they might end up an decrepit old man or woman. Baka lanong kukulubot ang balat nila.

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/2RW4Y3WFUJYEKEGD2AF45PMSCM John

      Hi Enteng, I think you got this wrong… 
      The Philippines already has stem cell treatment, if I’m not mistaken Medical City
      in Pasig has this in their Regenerative Disease department. Though, I think that 
      the treatment is really expensive and cannot be afforded by the ordinary Filipino. You can try to google or youtube Dr. Sam Bernal, I think he is one of the Filipinoexperts at the forefront in stem cell treatment in the Philippines



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